The Slatterys introduced Herbert to the work of several thinkers who would influence his writing, including Freud, Jung, Jaspers and Heidegger they also familiarized Herbert with Zen Buddhism. Here they befriended the psychologists Ralph and Irene Slattery. In 1949 Herbert and his wife moved to California to work on the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. They married in Seattle in 1946, and had two sons, Brian (b. They were the only students who had sold any work for publication Herbert had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines, the first to Esquire in 1945, and Stuart had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine. Īfter the war, Herbert attended the University of Washington, where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative writing class in 1946.

Herbert subsequently moved to Portland, Oregon where he reported for The Oregon Journal. entry into World War II, he served in the Navy's Seabees for six months as a photographer, but suffered an accidental head injury and was given a medical discharge. Herbert married Flora Lillian Parkinson in San Pedro, California, in 1941.

Herbert then returned to Salem in 1940 where he worked for the Oregon Statesman newspaper (now Statesman Journal) in a variety of positions, including photographer. In 1939 he lied about his age to get his first newspaper job at the Glendale Star. He enrolled in high school at Salem High School (now North Salem High School), where he graduated the next year. Because of an impoverished home environment, largely due to the Great Depression, he left home in 1938 to live with an aunt and uncle in Salem, Oregon. He had an early interest in photography, and bought a Kodak box camera at age ten, a new folding camera in his early teens, and a color film camera in the mid-1930s.

He was fascinated by books and could read much of the newspaper before the age of five, had an excellent memory, and learned things quickly. His rural upbringing involved spending a lot of his youth on the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas.

was born on October 8, 1920, in Tacoma, Washington, to Frank Patrick Herbert Sr. Herbert's novella ' The Priests of Psi' was the cover story for the February 1960 issue of Fantastic.

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